Basics

Things that use Basics

• -- 29 Games Nobody Plays Anymore
• -- A brief history of playing cards
• -- A Family Tree of Card Games
• -- A Search for Books Relevant to the History of Games
• -- Ancient Limerick hurling ball has its guts checked
• -- Arjan Verwij's Dice Site
• -- Bibliography of Playing-Card Books
• -- Board Game Studies
• -- Card Game Rules
• -- Cats at Cards
• -- Children's Games at the Florilegium
• -- Dagonell's Medieval Games
• -- Dating Period Card Games
• -- David Parlett's page on Historical Card Games
• -- Debora Marzec's reproduction game sets
• -- Excerpts from Jessel's Bibliography of Works in English on Playing Cards and Gaming
• -- Extracts from The Complete Gamester
• -- FitzStephen's Description of London
• -- Florilegium articles on Entertainment
• -- Game Links from the Kingdom of Atlantia
• -- Game References found at EMEDD
• -- Games at Medieval and Renaissance Material Culture
• -- Games Galore
• -- Games listed in Gargantua (1653)
• -- Games of the Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age
• -- Guinevere's Games
• -- Heather Hall Card Gallery
• -- Historical playing cards
• -- History of Games Timeline
• -- Images from the Alphonso MS
• -- Is it Period?
• -- John Jordan's decks
• -- John Jordan's Playing Card Links
• -- Justin's Annotated Games Bibliography
• -- La boule bleue
• -- Les jeux de Gargantua (1534)
• -- MacGregor Historic Games
• -- Masters Traditional Games
• -- Mats Winther's Board Game page
• -- Norse Games
• -- Opusculos legales del Rey Don Alfonso el sabio
• -- Organizing the Greed for Gain: Alfonso X of Spain’s Law on Gambling Houses
• -- P.S. Neeley Shareware
• -- Parlett on the Leaf Game
• -- Period Games at the Florilegium
• -- Playing Cards at Tattershall Arms
• -- Records of the Low Company of Carolingia
• -- Some game terms found in the *Diccionario de Autoridades*
• -- Some games listed in Minsheu's Spanish/English dictionary
• -- Some Less-Known Gaming Sources
• -- Sonja Musser Golladay's dissertation on the Alfonso MS (hardcopy)
• -- Sonja Musser Golladay's Dissertation on the Alfonso MS (PDF)
• -- Taxonomic map of Playing Cards
• -- The Alfonso MS, in English
• -- The Asia Society's page on Asian Games
• -- The Electronic Texts and Condordances of the Prose Works of Alfonso X, El Sabio
• -- The Full History of Board Games
• -- The Game Cultures Society
• -- The History of Playing Cards
• -- The International Playing-Card Society
• -- The Introduction of Playing-Cards to Europe
• -- The Silliman Etching
• -- The Web Gallery of Art
• -- Traditional Game Rules
• -- Transcription of Gargantua (1542 ed)
• -- Transcriptions of some bits of Cotgrave
• -- VidaQuestla
• -- Viking Siege
• -- Walker's *A Manifest Detection of Diceplay*
• -- Zillions of Games
• All Fours
• All Fours -- Modar's reconstruction of All Fours
• All Fours, Bassett, Bone-Ace, Cribbage, Gleek, La Bete, Lanterloo, Ombre, Picket, Primero, Ruff and Trump, Tables, Tick-Tack, Whist -- The Compleat Gamester, 1725 edition
• Alouette
• Alouette -- Modar's reconstruction of 2-player Alouette
• Alouette -- Modar's reconstruction of 4-player Alouette
• Alquerques
• Alquerques -- Description from Abstract Games
• Alquerques, Fanarona, Draughts -- James Masters' page about the Alquerques Family
• Alquerques, Merels, Game of the Goose, Fox and Geese, Gluckshaus, Tables -- 7 period board games, printed on fabric
• As Nas
• As Nas -- Modar's reconstruction of As Nas
• Aseb
• Ashtapada
• Ashtapada -- Jean-Louis Cazaux' speculations about Ashtapada
• Ball Games
• Ball Games -- Balls!
• Bassett
• Bassett -- Bassetta, A Renaissance Italian Card Game
• Bassett -- Modar's reconstruction of Basset
• Bassett, Landsknecht, Pochspiel, Tarot -- Still More Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Card Games
• Battledore and Shuttlecock
• Battledore and Shuttlecock -- History of Battledore and Shuttlecock
• Billiards
• Billiards -- Billiards on Traditional Games
• Billiards, Truc, Chess, Tables, Bowls, Picket, Gleek, Cribbage -- Games in *The Academy of Armory*
• Blind Man's Buff -- Blind Man's Buff at the Virtual Museum
• Blind Man's Buff
• Bone-Ace
• Bone-Ace -- Strawberry's reconstruction of Thirty-One
• Bowling
• Bowling -- A possible Bowling variant
• Bowls
• Bowls -- Bowls at the Virtual Museum
• Bowls -- Description of Modern Bocce
• Bowls -- History of Bocce at bocce.org
• Bowls -- History of Boules and Petanque
• Bowls -- History of Bowls at Traditional Games
• Bowls -- On the Origin and Diffusion of European Ball Games, a Linguistic Analysis
• Bowls -- The History of Bocce
• Bowls -- The World's Best Bocce Links Page
• Bryncir
• Bryncir -- Justin's description of Bryncir
• Byzantine Chess
• Cacho
• Card Roulette
• Card Roulette -- Gambling Games
• Chaturanga
• Chaturanga -- Discussion on the History of Chess page
• Chess
• Chess -- A History of Chess, by HJR Murray
• Chess -- Carolus Chess page
• Chess -- Caxton's "The Game and Playe of the Chesse"
• Chess -- Chess History and Reminiscences
• Chess -- Chess Problems in the NYPL
• Chess -- Facsimile images of Jacobus de Cessolis' MS
• Chess -- James Masters' History of Chess
• Chess -- Jean-Louis Cazaux' History of Chess
• Chess -- Mayhematics' Guide to Variant Chess
• Chess -- Medieval Chess Pieces
• Chess -- Medieval European Chess at The History of Chess
• Chess -- Met Lecture 1 on the History of Chess
• Chess -- Repetición de amores y Arte de ajedrez
• Chess -- So You Have This Chess Set
• Chess -- The Beginnings of Chess
• Chess -- The Chess Variant Pages
• Chess -- The Enigma of the Birth of Chess
• Chess -- The Old Texts
• Chess -- The Playe of Chess
• Chess -- The Variant Chess Website
• Chess -- Vat.lat.5854
• Chess -- Vida's Scacchia Ludus
• Chess, Tables -- The Games of Chess and Backgammon in Sasanian Persia
• Chess, Tables, Merels -- Tractatus de scacchis, de tabulis et de merellis
• Chess, Tables, Primero -- Imran Ghory's History of Games
• Citadel Chess
• Complete Chess
• Costly Colors
• Costly Colors -- Parlett on Costly Colors
• Courier Chess
• Courier Chess -- Courier Online Chess at Jocly
• Courier Chess -- Description at Chess Variants
• Courier Chess -- Description from the British Chess Variants Society
• Cribbage
• Cribbage -- How to Play Cribbage
• Cribbage, Noddy -- A History of Cribbage
• Cricket
• Curling
• Curling -- Hickock Sports on Curling
• Dominoes
• Dominoes -- New Thoughts on Dominoes
• Draughts
• Dublets
• Duodecima Scripta
• Dwyle Flonking
• Dwyle Flonking -- Dwyle Flunking at the Virtual Museum
• Early Backgammon
• Escaques
• Escaques -- Description at the History of Chess
• External Page
• Fanarona
• Fanarona -- Fanarona for Android
• Fanarona -- Fanarona for GNOME
• Fanarona -- Java implementation of Fanarona
• Fayles
• Fidchell
• Fidchell -- Fidchell in Dreoilin's Weblog
• Flor
• Four Seasons Chess
• Four Seasons Chess -- Description at Chess Variants
• Four Seasons Chess -- Mats Winther's description
• Four Seasons Chess -- Michel Wolffauer on Chess of the Four Seasons
• Four-player Chaturanga
• Four-player Chaturanga -- Discussion at The History of Chess
• Four-player Chaturanga -- Mats Winther's Description
• Fox and Geese
• Fox and Geese -- Fox and Geese - How to Play and History of the Game
• Fox and Geese -- Mats Winther on Fox and Geese
• Gala
• Gala -- Mats Winther on Gala
• Game
• Game of the Four Seasons
• Game of the Four Seasons -- Building the Board for the Game of the Four Seasons
• Game of the Four Seasons -- Michel Wolffauer's reconstruction of El Mundo
• Game of the Goose
• Game of the Goose -- A lovely Goose board at the Met
• Game of the Goose -- Biography of a Board Game: Game of the Goose
• Game of the Goose -- Dagonell on Goose
• Game of the Goose -- Giochi dell'Oca
• Game of the Goose -- Images of many board games (heavy on Goose)
• Game of the Goose -- Kadon Enterprises Goose Set
• Game of the Goose -- Modar on Game of the Goose
• Gameball
• Gleek
• Gleek -- A period-style description of Gleek
• Gleek -- David Parlett's reconstruction of Gleek
• Gleek -- Michel's reconstruction of Gleek
• Gleek -- Transcription of Cotgrave's Gleek
• Gleek -- Transcription of Gleek from Cotgrave
• Gluckshaus
• Gluckshaus -- Gluckhaus at The Reverend's Musings
• Go
• Go -- A Pictorial History of the Game of Go
• Go -- Michel Wolffauer's handout for his Go class
• Grande Acedrex
• Grande Acedrex -- Alternate reconstruction of Grande Acedrex
• Gwyddbwyll
• Gwyddbwyll -- Gwyddbwyll reconstruction from Y Camamseriad
• Halatafl
• Halatafl -- Mats Winther on Halatafl
• Harpastum
• Hazard
• Hazard -- Hazard - History of the Game and How to Play
• Hnefetafl
• Hnefetafl -- A Pictish Origin for Hnefetafl?
• Hnefetafl -- Abbas Agraphicus
• Hnefetafl -- Hnefatafl Online
• Hnefetafl -- Hnefatafl World Championship
• Hnefetafl -- Susan Granquist's page on Tafl
• Hnefetafl -- The Ancient Game Every Intelligence Professional Should Play
• Hnefetafl -- Tim Millar on Hnefetafl Tactics and Strategy
• Hnefetafl -- Trondheim Hnefatafl Board Fragment
• Hnefetafl -- Wareham Forge on Hnefetafl
• Hnefetafl -- YouTube video teaching Hnefatafl
• Hopscotch
• Horseshoes
• Indian / Turkish Great Chess
• Inn and Inn
• Inn and Inn -- Inn and Inn from the Ace's Boke
• Irish
• Irish -- Islamic Backgammon
• Irish -- Period-style description of Irish
• Jactus
• Karnoeffel
• Karnoeffel -- A description of Kaiserspiel
• Karnoeffel -- Modar's reconstruction of Karnoffel
• Karnoeffel -- Strawberry's reconstruction of Karnöffel
• Knattleikr
• Knattleikr -- Knattleikr, the Viking Ball Game
• Knucklebones
• Knucklebones -- Dagonell on Knucklebones
• Knucklebones -- Probability in Sheep Knucklebone Replicas
• Knucklebones, Tabula -- Roman Board Games
• Knucklebones, Tali -- Eachna's Celtic Knucklebones Page
• Kottabos
• Kottabos -- A news article about reconstructing Kottabos
• Kubb
• Kubb -- A concise overview of how to play Kubb
• Kubb -- Home page of the British Kubb Players Association
• Kubb -- Kubb for sale at Crown Darts
• Kubb -- The Kubb World Championship Homepage
• La Bete
• La Bete -- A reconstruction of La Bete by the Low Company
• Landsknecht
• Lanterloo
• Lanterloo -- Parlett on Loo
• Laugh and Lie Down
• Laugh and Lie Down -- Justin's implementation of Laugh and Lie Down for playingcards.io
• Laugh and Lie Down -- Laugh and Lie Down Cheat Sheet
• Liar's Dice -- Liar's Dice in Folklore in History
• Liar's Dice
• Losing Loadum
• Losing Loadum -- Michel's reconstruction of Losing Loadum
• Ludus Latrunculorum
• Mancala
• Mancala -- A page of Mancala links
• Mancala -- A pretty JavaScript game of Mancala
• Mancala -- Articles about Mancala
• Mancala -- Count and Capture Games at the Museum of Games
• Mancala -- Mancala on Traditional Games
• Mancala -- Online play of Mancala
• Maw
• Maw -- A preliminary reconstruction of Maw by Glenn Overby
• Maw -- Parlett on Maw
• Merels
• Merels -- Merels in the Ace's Boke
• Merels -- MS page showing Nine Men's Morris
• Merels -- Nine and Three Men's Morris on Traditional Games
• Merels -- Row or Mill Games at the Virtual Museum
• Merels -- The Loop Within Circular Three Men's Morris
• Merels, Tafl -- Java implementations of several board games
• Metromachy
• Metromachy -- An in-depth paper on Metromachy
• Metromachy -- Justin's transcription of Metromachy
• Metromachy -- Magnus' reconstruction and implementation of Metromachy
• Nine Men's Morris
• Noddy
• Noddy -- David Parlett on Noddy
• Noddy -- Five Card Cribbage
• Oblong Chess
• Oblong Chess -- Mats Winther's reconstruction
• Ombre
• Ombre -- The Royal Game of Ombre
• Ombre -- Transcription of Ombre, from Cotgrave 2nd ed.
• Ombre -- Transcription of Ombre, from Cotgrave 3rd ed
• Ombre, Picket, Pochspiel, Billiards, Trictrac -- Academie Universelle des Jeux (1718)
• Pachisi
• Pall-Mall
• Pall-Mall -- Hickock Sports on the History of Croquet
• Pall-Mall -- Modar on Pall-Mall
• Pall-Mall -- Pall Mall at Traditional Games
• Pechigonga
• Penneech
• Picket -- A period-style description of Piquet
• Picket -- Another transcription of Picket from Cotgrave
• Picket -- How to Play Piquet
• Picket -- Parlett on Piquet
• Picket -- Transcription of Cotgrave's description of Picket
• Picket -- Transcription of Picket from Cotton
• Pochspiel
• Pochspiel -- Galleron's reconstructed Pochspiel board
• Primero
• Primero -- An excerpt from a mid-18th century book on Minchiate, with rules for Prime
• Primero -- CAPITOLO SOPRA il gioco di Primiera
• Primero -- Commento al Capitolo della Primiera
• Primero -- David Whittaker's reconstruction of Primero
• Primero -- Excerpt from "Second Frutes"
• Primero -- Excerpt from Pleasant and Delightfull Dialogues in Spanish and English
• Primero -- Il gioco di primiera
• Primero -- Justin's reconstructions of Primero
• Primero -- Modernized version of "Jeu de prime de Lyon"
• Primero -- Primero from Nare's Glossary
• Primero -- Scan of Liber de Ludo Aleae
• Primero -- Transcription of "Jeu de prime de Lyon"
• Putt
• Putt -- Transcription of Putt from Cotton
• Quek
• Quek -- A court case, described on ORB
• Quoits
• Quoits -- History of Quoits at Traditional Games
• Reconstruction Details
• Reconstruction of All Tables
• Reconstruction of Common Puff
• Reconstruction of Re-encounter
• Reconstruction of Six, Two and Ace
• Reconstruction of The Quest
• Rentoy
• Reversis
• Rhythmomachy
• Rhythmomachy -- 16th century Rhythmomachy
• Rhythmomachy -- A (now-ancient) Windows implementation of Rhythmomachy
• Rhythmomachy -- A Medieval Battle of Numbers
• Rhythmomachy -- Android implementation of Rhythmomachy
• Rhythmomachy -- Aritmomachia Blog
• Rhythmomachy -- Benedetto's *Trattato Delle Proportioni Et Proportionalita*
• Rhythmomachy -- Illustration of the Kings on a Rhythmomachy board
• Rhythmomachy -- Laser-cutting a Rhythmomachy Board
• Rhythmomachy -- Period illustration of a Rhythmomachy board
• Rhythmomachy -- Period-style Elizabethan Rhythmomachy Rules
• Rhythmomachy -- Period-style intro to Rhythmomachy
• Rhythmomachy -- Rhythmomachy Basics
• Rhythmomachy -- Rithmomachia Canada
• Rhythmomachy -- Rithmomachia, the Great Medieval Number Game
• Rhythmomachy -- The Battle of Numbers
• Rhythmomachy -- Transcription of William Fulke's book
• Ringing the Bull
• Rounders
• Ruff and Trump
• Ruff and Trump -- How to Play Ruff and Honours
• Ruff and Trump -- Justin's implementation of Ruff and Trump
• Ruff and Trump -- Ruffe and Trump
• Ruzzola
• Senet
• Senet -- The Game Cabinet on Senet
• Seven-Sided Backgammon
• Seven-Sided Backgammon -- Justin's reconstruction of Seven-Sided Backgammon
• Seven-Sided Backgammon -- Making Seven-Sided Dice
• Seven-Sided Backgammon -- Roselyne's translation of Astronomical Games
• Shatranj
• Shatranj Kamil
• Shogi
• Shogi -- Japanese Chess
• Shogi -- Michel Wolffauer's cheat sheet
• Shogi -- Shogi 2014
• Shogi -- Shogi Rules
• Shovegroat
• Shovegroat -- Shove Ha'penny at Traditional Games
• Shovelboard
• Skittles
• Skittles -- Skittles on Traditional Games
• Stoolball
• Sugoroku
• Sugoroku -- Edward of Effingham on Sugoroku
• Sugoroku -- The Asia Society on Sugoroku
• Tablero de Jesus
• Tablero de Jesus -- Archive of an email discussion about Tablero
• Tablero de Jesus -- Game Cabinet on Tablero
• Tablero de Jesus -- New York Magazine, 20 Dec 71
• Tablero de Jesus -- New York Magazine, 9 Oct 72
• Tablero de Jesus -- Tablero da Gucci at the Game Cabinet
• Tables
• Tables -- Backgammon Galore
• Tables -- Cardano on Tables Games
• Tables -- Chronology of Backgammon and Tables in England
• Tables -- History of Backgammon on Traditional Games
• Tables -- Imran Ghory's Listing of Tables in English Literature
• Tables -- Imran Ghory's notes on the History of Backgammon
• Tables -- So You Have This Backgammon Board
• Tables -- The Origins of Backgammon
• Tables, Chess -- On the Explanation of Chess and Backgammon
• Tablut
• Tablut -- Mats Winther on Tablut
• Tablut, Nine Men's Morris, Ludus Latrunculorum -- Queen’s Guard gifts – Portable Ancient Board Games
• Tabula
• Tafl
• Tafl -- A photo of the Ballinderry Game Board
• Tafl -- Damian Walker's Hnefetafl Site
• Tafl -- Fithcheall and Gwyddbwyll: Hnefatafl or Not?
• Tafl -- Hnefatafl - Archaeological Finds
• Tafl -- Justin on Tafl
• Tafl -- Links from the World Tafl Federation
• Tafl -- Michel Wolffauer's handout on Tafl
• Tafl -- Period-style description of Tafl
• Tafl -- Ragnar Thorbergsson's Analysis of Tafl
• Tafl -- Sten Helmfrid on Tafl Games
• Tafl -- Tafl Shops
• Tafl -- The Game Cabinet on Tafl Games
• Tafl -- The Tafl Gild
• Tafl -- The Viking Answer Lady on Tafl Games
• Tafl -- The World Tafl Federation
• Tag Games
• Tali
• Tali -- Tali at the Roman Board Games site
• Tamerlanes Chess
• Tamerlanes Chess -- Description at The History of Chess
• Tamerlanes Chess -- Full Tamerlane Chess at The History of Chess
• Tamerlanes Chess -- Image of a 14th century page of Arabic text, showing a picture of what certainly *looks* like a Tamurlane's Chess board
• Tarot
• Tarot -- A page on Austrian Tarock
• Tarot -- A period-style description of Tarot
• Tarot -- Accademia del Tarocchino Bolognese
• Tarot -- Justin's description of Early French Tarot
• Tarot -- Maproom Publications
• Tarot -- Michel Wolffauer's writeup on Tarot
• Tarot -- Modar's reconstruction of Tarok
• Tarot -- Pagat's page on Minchiate / Germini
• Tarot -- Pre-Gebelin Tarot History
• Tarot -- Regles du Jeu des Tarots
• Tarot -- SCA-appropriate Tarot decks
• Tarot -- The TarotL History Information Sheet
• Tarot -- Trionfi
• Teetotums
• Teetotums -- Dagonell on Teetotums
• Tennis
• The Game of Ur
• The Game of Ur -- Deciphering the World's Oldest Rule Book
• The Game of Ur -- Irving Finkel's detailed reconstruction of the game
• The Game of Ur, Aseb -- From Ur to Aseb: The Evolution of the Game of Twenty Squares
• Three Men's Morris
• Tick-Tack
• Tick-Tack -- Low Company reconstruction of Ticktack
• Tick-Tack -- Transcription of Tick-Tack from Cotton
• Trappola
• Trictrac
• Trictrac -- David Levy's Trictrac Homepage
• Trictrac -- Le Jeu de Trictrac
• Trictrac -- The Reasoned Dictionary of Trictrac
• Truc
• Trump
• Trump -- Anton de Stoc's reconstruction of Trump
• Trump -- Relevant parts of *Familiar Dialogues*
• Trump -- Trump, transcribed by Antron de Stoc
• Wari
• Whist
• Whist -- How to Play Whist